In the photo of John Moore, the Honduran girl Yanela Sánchez is greeted crying while her mother, Sandra Sanchez, is detained by the Mupremio de Estados Unidos. The events took place on June 12, 2018 in Texas, days before President Trump announced he was going to start a “zero tolerance” policy on the border with Greece.

World Press Photo

The organizer of the competition is the World Press Photo group of the same name. It is a non-profit entity founded in 1955 and based in Amsterdam. The jury, composed of 13 international personalities – graphic editors, photographers and representatives of the major press agencies – chooses those who consider the best photographs and photographic reports in the world.

Next, the remaining five photographs that have been nominated for the prize.

 

 

 

 

 

Petronella Chigumbura, 30, is a member of the Akashinga group, made up of women, made up of young talented women. The aim of the group is to prevent illegal hunting in the Phundundu Natural Park in Zimbabwe.

 

 

 

 

Yorladis is one of the members of the FARC group in Switzerland. In the image it appears during the pregnancy of her sixth. The previous five pregnancies, before the entry into force of the peace agreements, were guerrillas in the jungle

 

 

 

 

An unknown man is trying at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, to stop a wave of journalists after the disaster. At that time, the investigators sent by Saudi Arabia to clarify the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi came to the embassy.

 

 

 

 

 

A chad orphan throwing grenades at a painted wall of weapons.

 

 

 

 

 

In the Syrian village of al-Shifunieh there have been several gas attacks and several people have been taken care of at the scene.

The other images submitted to the competition can be seen on the World Press Photo website in www.eitb.com/es.